45th President of the United States, Donald Trump (Vol. 12)
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Not a good day for donald junior - no wonder he's been losing it lately, probably wondering when the arrest will come.
Donald Trump Jr. was deposed as part of the Washington, DC, attorney general's lawsuit alleging the misuse of Trump inaugural funds, according to a new court filing, the latest investigation in which the former President's children have surfaced.
In a court document dated Tuesday, DC Attorney General Karl Racine's office revealed the former President's son was deposed on February 11.
The filing states that Trump's deposition "raised further questions about the nature" of a hotel invoice Racine's office has been investigating. The attorney general's office alleges that the Trump Organization signed a contract with the Loews Madison hotel for $49,358.92 for a block of rooms during the 2017 inauguration, and that the invoice was later forwarded to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which then paid the bill, according to the filing.
Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump, executive vice presidents of the Trump Organization who run the real estate company on a day-to-day basis, have increasingly surfaced in investigations as authorities' interest turns to properties the former President's sons are involved in.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/donald...
As always, trump has fall guys willing to do his dirty work, even his kids
Donald Trump Jr. was deposed as part of the Washington, DC, attorney general's lawsuit alleging the misuse of Trump inaugural funds, according to a new court filing, the latest investigation in which the former President's children have surfaced.
In a court document dated Tuesday, DC Attorney General Karl Racine's office revealed the former President's son was deposed on February 11.
The filing states that Trump's deposition "raised further questions about the nature" of a hotel invoice Racine's office has been investigating. The attorney general's office alleges that the Trump Organization signed a contract with the Loews Madison hotel for $49,358.92 for a block of rooms during the 2017 inauguration, and that the invoice was later forwarded to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which then paid the bill, according to the filing.
Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump, executive vice presidents of the Trump Organization who run the real estate company on a day-to-day basis, have increasingly surfaced in investigations as authorities' interest turns to properties the former President's sons are involved in.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/donald...
As always, trump has fall guys willing to do his dirty work, even his kids
Bad news also for kushner
A Times Square retail property owned by Kushner Cos., the family company of former presidential adviser Jared Kushner, is a step closer to foreclosure, according to loan documents.
“Legal counsel has been engaged and foreclosure actions have been filed,” according to a report compiled by Wells Fargo & Co., the trustee on the debt.
Representatives for Kushner Cos. didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The building at 229 West 43rd Street, which used to house the New York Times, is only about half occupied. It was reappraised at $92.5 million in 2020 and counted Bowlmor and, until December, Guitar Center as tenants. The building was appraised at $470 million in 2016.
Deutsche Bank AG originated a $285 million loan in 2016 to refinance six floors of retail space in the former New York Times building. The property also had $85 million in mezzanine debt from SL Green Realty Corp. and Paramount Group Inc.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-23...
no more money forthcoming from the banks to bail them out, a huge reappraisal of value.
Remember Saudi blockaded Qatar until they suddenly bailed out Kushners business on 666 fifth avenue and the blockade was lifted...
A Times Square retail property owned by Kushner Cos., the family company of former presidential adviser Jared Kushner, is a step closer to foreclosure, according to loan documents.
“Legal counsel has been engaged and foreclosure actions have been filed,” according to a report compiled by Wells Fargo & Co., the trustee on the debt.
Representatives for Kushner Cos. didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The building at 229 West 43rd Street, which used to house the New York Times, is only about half occupied. It was reappraised at $92.5 million in 2020 and counted Bowlmor and, until December, Guitar Center as tenants. The building was appraised at $470 million in 2016.
Deutsche Bank AG originated a $285 million loan in 2016 to refinance six floors of retail space in the former New York Times building. The property also had $85 million in mezzanine debt from SL Green Realty Corp. and Paramount Group Inc.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-23...
no more money forthcoming from the banks to bail them out, a huge reappraisal of value.
Remember Saudi blockaded Qatar until they suddenly bailed out Kushners business on 666 fifth avenue and the blockade was lifted...
Bad news for Steve Bannon. trump pardoned him for fraud over the build the wall scam, but apparently its really poorly written, allowing Manhattan District Attorney prosecutors to charge him for the same offence
The Manhattan district attorney's office has subpoenaed financial records related to Steve Bannon's crowd-funding border-wall effort, signaling that its criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's chief strategist is advancing, according to people familiar with the matter.
Prosecutors sent the subpoenas after Trump pardoned Bannon in late January for federal conspiracy crimes tied to the southern border-wall project, making Bannon among the Trump world figures -- including the former president -- subjects of criminal investigations by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance.
The grand jury subpoenas were sent to Wells Fargo, one of the financial institutions that handled some of the accounts used in the fundraising effort, and to GoFundMe, the crowdfunding platform where Bannon's project, "We Build the Wall," once operated, the people said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/bannon...
The Manhattan district attorney's office has subpoenaed financial records related to Steve Bannon's crowd-funding border-wall effort, signaling that its criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's chief strategist is advancing, according to people familiar with the matter.
Prosecutors sent the subpoenas after Trump pardoned Bannon in late January for federal conspiracy crimes tied to the southern border-wall project, making Bannon among the Trump world figures -- including the former president -- subjects of criminal investigations by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance.
The grand jury subpoenas were sent to Wells Fargo, one of the financial institutions that handled some of the accounts used in the fundraising effort, and to GoFundMe, the crowdfunding platform where Bannon's project, "We Build the Wall," once operated, the people said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/bannon...
Byker28i said:
Not a good day for donald junior - no wonder he's been losing it lately, probably wondering when the arrest will come.
Donald Trump Jr. was deposed as part of the Washington, DC, attorney general's lawsuit alleging the misuse of Trump inaugural funds, according to a new court filing, the latest investigation in which the former President's children have surfaced.
In a court document dated Tuesday, DC Attorney General Karl Racine's office revealed the former President's son was deposed on February 11.
The filing states that Trump's deposition "raised further questions about the nature" of a hotel invoice Racine's office has been investigating. The attorney general's office alleges that the Trump Organization signed a contract with the Loews Madison hotel for $49,358.92 for a block of rooms during the 2017 inauguration, and that the invoice was later forwarded to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which then paid the bill, according to the filing.
Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump, executive vice presidents of the Trump Organization who run the real estate company on a day-to-day basis, have increasingly surfaced in investigations as authorities' interest turns to properties the former President's sons are involved in.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/donald...
As always, trump has fall guys willing to do his dirty work, even his kids
Donald Trump Jr? Never heard of him......Donald Trump Jr. was deposed as part of the Washington, DC, attorney general's lawsuit alleging the misuse of Trump inaugural funds, according to a new court filing, the latest investigation in which the former President's children have surfaced.
In a court document dated Tuesday, DC Attorney General Karl Racine's office revealed the former President's son was deposed on February 11.
The filing states that Trump's deposition "raised further questions about the nature" of a hotel invoice Racine's office has been investigating. The attorney general's office alleges that the Trump Organization signed a contract with the Loews Madison hotel for $49,358.92 for a block of rooms during the 2017 inauguration, and that the invoice was later forwarded to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which then paid the bill, according to the filing.
Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump, executive vice presidents of the Trump Organization who run the real estate company on a day-to-day basis, have increasingly surfaced in investigations as authorities' interest turns to properties the former President's sons are involved in.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/donald...
As always, trump has fall guys willing to do his dirty work, even his kids
AW111 said:
5 In a Row said:
Is there a reason why so many of the cases against Trump, Trump Juniors, Bannon, etc emanate from New York/Manhattan DAs or AGs?
Trump's real estate 'business' is New York based.MSNBC reporting that trump's taxes and underlying tax documents are in the hands of the Manhattan District Attorney.
The records include millions of pages of documents.
It was accounting firm Mazars that handed over Trump’s tax returns, not Trump himself. He's been fighting to keep them hidden now for 4 years.
They’ve already reportedly identified a number of criminal acts on Trump’s part, with the help of Cohen, such as overvaluing certain properties while applying for new loans, they simply have to match up those numbers with the corresponding lines in Trump’s tax returns. So that part will go comparatively quickly.
What will take longer is going line by line through Trump’s tax returns, looking for suspicious numbers that jump out and point to additional potential crimes that prosecutors don’t already know about. Investigating those new crimes could take some time.
The records include millions of pages of documents.
It was accounting firm Mazars that handed over Trump’s tax returns, not Trump himself. He's been fighting to keep them hidden now for 4 years.
They’ve already reportedly identified a number of criminal acts on Trump’s part, with the help of Cohen, such as overvaluing certain properties while applying for new loans, they simply have to match up those numbers with the corresponding lines in Trump’s tax returns. So that part will go comparatively quickly.
What will take longer is going line by line through Trump’s tax returns, looking for suspicious numbers that jump out and point to additional potential crimes that prosecutors don’t already know about. Investigating those new crimes could take some time.
Edited by Byker28i on Thursday 25th February 20:24
More than 10,000 pro-Trump rioters entered the Capitol grounds and about 800 of them breached the building during the Jan. 6 attack, the acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police told lawmakers today,
The questions from lawmakers at this House appropriations subcommittee hearing with acting Capitol Police chief and acting House sergeant at arms are miles better than the questions senators asked the other day with former security officials.
video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSwMrkpXd0&fe...
The questions from lawmakers at this House appropriations subcommittee hearing with acting Capitol Police chief and acting House sergeant at arms are miles better than the questions senators asked the other day with former security officials.
video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSwMrkpXd0&fe...
Byker28i said:
What will take longer is going line by line through Trump’s tax returns, looking for suspicious numbers that jump out and point to additional potential crimes that prosecutors don’t already know about. Investigating those new crimes could take some time.
How far can the go with that? If they find something that's related to a crime in another state, I assume they can't either prosecute it in NY or send the returns out of state?paulguitar said:
I think it is probably a lot to do with the fact that the Republican party is anti-abortion, and trump has said so is he, despite having probably paid for several himself.
Then you have a substantial percentage of god folks who believe in the 'Q' pizzagate/Tom Hanks/Dems eat babies conspiracy lunacy. That sort of adds up, if you can believe in the religion-type stuff, it's just another step I suppose.
“Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities” - VoltaireThen you have a substantial percentage of god folks who believe in the 'Q' pizzagate/Tom Hanks/Dems eat babies conspiracy lunacy. That sort of adds up, if you can believe in the religion-type stuff, it's just another step I suppose.
silentbrown said:
Byker28i said:
What will take longer is going line by line through Trump’s tax returns, looking for suspicious numbers that jump out and point to additional potential crimes that prosecutors don’t already know about. Investigating those new crimes could take some time.
How far can the go with that? If they find something that's related to a crime in another state, I assume they can't either prosecute it in NY or send the returns out of state?wc98 said:
i doubt they will go very far at all. if there is an american politician (more than a few here as well i would imagine) of any persuasion, with any significant time in the job,that would pass a fine tooth comb inspection by the tax authorities i would extremely surprised. a bit like the impeachment, don't listen to what they say,watch what they do.
The largest flaws in your statement are Trump never was a politician, combined with the fact he was obfuscating his tax from well before he even thought about running for president.Trump is an opportunist, it is tempting to consider he ran for president almost for a bet, without expectation he would or could win. Once he did he realised how much he could grift it and doubled down. He was spending other peoples money to campaign, so that was all good, if he didn't win he could have sold it as something like 'I tried to fix it, but you didn't let me.....' and then continue to b
h about it.The cost of the Capitol insurrection incited by Trump and Republicans: $30,000,000.
The top operations and maintenance official of the United States Capitol told lawmakers on Wednesday that the costs of the Jan. 6 attack will exceed $30 million, as his office works to provide mental health services, increase security and repair historical statues and other art damaged in the riot.
“The events of Jan. 6 were difficult for the American people, and extremely hard for all of us on campus to witness,” J. Brett Blanton, the architect of the Capitol, testified as he and other top officials gave their first extensive look at the damage inflicted on the House’s fine art collection and the strain on congressional employees from the assault.
Speaking to the House Appropriations Committee, where lawmakers are considering an emergency bill to cover the costs of the most violent attack on the Capitol in two centuries, Mr. Blanton described how his staff sheltered congressional aides as “the crowd began crashing through windows and prying open doors.”
As staff members huddled inside, the inauguration platform they had been diligently assembling was wrecked: sound systems and photo equipment irreparably damaged or stolen, two lanterns designed and built by the eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 19th century ripped from the ground, and blue paint tracked all over the stone balustrades and into the hallways. Inside, busts of former speakers of the House and a Chippewa statesman, a statue of Thomas Jefferson and paintings of James Madison and John Quincy Adams were coated in fire extinguisher and other chemicals, including yellow dye that could stain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/politics/cap...
These are the people half the GOP are wanting as supporters, who believed trump would invoke some power to stay as their king
The top operations and maintenance official of the United States Capitol told lawmakers on Wednesday that the costs of the Jan. 6 attack will exceed $30 million, as his office works to provide mental health services, increase security and repair historical statues and other art damaged in the riot.
“The events of Jan. 6 were difficult for the American people, and extremely hard for all of us on campus to witness,” J. Brett Blanton, the architect of the Capitol, testified as he and other top officials gave their first extensive look at the damage inflicted on the House’s fine art collection and the strain on congressional employees from the assault.
Speaking to the House Appropriations Committee, where lawmakers are considering an emergency bill to cover the costs of the most violent attack on the Capitol in two centuries, Mr. Blanton described how his staff sheltered congressional aides as “the crowd began crashing through windows and prying open doors.”
As staff members huddled inside, the inauguration platform they had been diligently assembling was wrecked: sound systems and photo equipment irreparably damaged or stolen, two lanterns designed and built by the eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 19th century ripped from the ground, and blue paint tracked all over the stone balustrades and into the hallways. Inside, busts of former speakers of the House and a Chippewa statesman, a statue of Thomas Jefferson and paintings of James Madison and John Quincy Adams were coated in fire extinguisher and other chemicals, including yellow dye that could stain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/politics/cap...
These are the people half the GOP are wanting as supporters, who believed trump would invoke some power to stay as their king
Ex girlfriends seem to be the Feds best informers. How many rioters now have been turned in by them - lots...
A Capitol rioter texted his ex during the insurrection to call her a ‘moron,’ feds say. She turned him in.
Standing on the Capitol steps on Jan. 6, Richard Michetti allegedly took a break from the rioting to argue with his ex-girlfriend over text message. After sending photos and videos of the mob and boasting how he had avoided tear gas, Michetti parroted Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
“If you can’t see the election was stolen you’re a moron,” Michetti wrote in a text to the woman, according to court documents.
The next day, the woman he had insulted promptly told the FBI that her ex was at the Capitol, handing over to law enforcement the string of texts, photos and videos he had sent to her.
Michetti, who lives in Ridley Park, Pa., has now been charged with knowingly entering a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and obstruction of Congress. If convicted, Michetti, who was arraigned Tuesday in federal court in Philadelphia, faces up to 20 years in prison, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/25/c...
A Capitol rioter texted his ex during the insurrection to call her a ‘moron,’ feds say. She turned him in.
Standing on the Capitol steps on Jan. 6, Richard Michetti allegedly took a break from the rioting to argue with his ex-girlfriend over text message. After sending photos and videos of the mob and boasting how he had avoided tear gas, Michetti parroted Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
“If you can’t see the election was stolen you’re a moron,” Michetti wrote in a text to the woman, according to court documents.
The next day, the woman he had insulted promptly told the FBI that her ex was at the Capitol, handing over to law enforcement the string of texts, photos and videos he had sent to her.
Michetti, who lives in Ridley Park, Pa., has now been charged with knowingly entering a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and obstruction of Congress. If convicted, Michetti, who was arraigned Tuesday in federal court in Philadelphia, faces up to 20 years in prison, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/25/c...
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